[Verse 1]

"Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried

"And stay all night with me

I have gold chains, and the finest I have

I'll apply them all to thee."

[Verse 2]

"I can't get down and I shan't get down

Or stay all night with thee

Some pretty little girl in Cornersville

I love far better than thee."

[Verse 3]

He layed his head on a pillow of down

Kisses she gave him three

With a penny knife that she held in her hand

She murdered mortal he

[Interlude]

[Verse 4]

"Get well, get well, Love Henry, " She cried

"Get well, get well," said she

"Oh don't you see my own heart's blood

Come flowin' down so free?"

[Verse 5]

She took him by his long yellow hair

And also by his feet

She plunged him into well water, where

It runs both cold and deep

[Verse 6]

"Lie there, lie there, Love Henry," she cried

"'Til the flesh rots off your bones

Some pretty little girl in Cornersville

Will mourn for your return."

[Interlude]

[Verse 7]

Hush up, hush up, my parrot”, she cried

“Don’t turn away from me”

All these costly beads around my neck

I’ll apply them all to thee

[Verse 8]

"Hush up, hush up, my parrot," she cried

"And light on my right knee

The doors to your cage shall be decked with gold

And hung on a willow tree."

[Verse 9]

"I won't fly down, I can't fly down

And light on your right knee

A girl who would murder her own true love

Would kill a little birdlike me."